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*55. Carpophaga sasakensis sp. nov. 



Carpophaga specie! C, lacernulata dictae similis, sed subcaudalibus griseo- 

 vinaceis, nee castaneis. 



Hob. Lombok. 



$ ad. Cap ashy grey. Hind-neck greyish vinous, passing through ashy grey 

 into the colour of the back, which, like all the rest of the upper parts, is of a 

 brownish slate- colour with a very slight metallic-green tinge and a greyish hue, the 

 rump being more greyish slate. Underparts pale greyish vinaceous, more grey on 

 the chest. Sides of body and under wing-coverts slaty grey. Tail dark slate-colour, 

 tips grey for 37 to 40 mm., slightly darker on the edges. " Iris deep dull brown ; 

 beak dark slate-colour, darker at tip ; eyelids dark red ; feet dark purplish red, soles 

 ochreous, claws black." Total length about 140 150 mm. ; wing 227 233 ; tail 

 175; tars. 30; middle toe without claw 35; culmen from end of feathering to 

 tip 20 mm. Two males, both alike, were shot in Lombok, at about 3000 feet, in 

 June, by Mr. Doherty. 



56. Chalcophaps indica (L.). 

 Lombok at about 1000 feet. 



*57. Columba metallica Temm. 



One $ , shot about 3000 feet above the sea, is not distinguishable from the two 

 males from East Timor the only island from where this species is known in the 

 British Museum, except that it has rather a short wing, that being only 218 mm. 

 long. " Iris orange ; beak dark red, outer half greenish ochre ; eyelids and gape 

 dark red ; fore aspect of feet dark red ; hind aspect, soles, and claws pale 

 yellowish." 



58. Turtur bitorquatus (Temm.). 



2000 feet. " Iris orange ; beak blackish ; base of gape, eyelids, and feet 

 dark red." 



59. Turtur tigrinus (Temm.). 

 Lombok up to 3000 feet. 



*60. Macropygia leptogrammica (Temm.). 



Hills of Lombok, from 3000 to 6000 feet. " Iris outwardly purplish pink, 

 followed by a black line and then (inwardly) by a gamboge yellow or greyish 

 ring ; feet dark red, claws dark grey ; beak dark brown " (W. Doherty). 



61. Macropygia emiliana Bp. 



Lombok in elevations of 2000 and 5000 feet. "$. Eye orange; beak dull 

 brown ; feet dark red with brown claws." 



62. Gallus gallus (L.). 

 Shot 3000 feet above the sea. 



